Just a day after US retail startup Lolli announced a partnership with Alibaba to offer shoppers bitcoin rewards when purchasing items on its marketplaces, the Chinese e-commerce giant has “deactivated the partnership without cause,”…
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GitHub today launched the GitHub Security Lab, an ongoing effort to protect open source code projects. The GitHub Security Lab is aimed at bringing together security researchers from partner organizations like Google, Microsoft, Mozilla,…
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Google Cloud is making Contact Center AI generally available for use today. The cloud service is built with conversational AI engine Dialogflow to automate interactions with customers in call centers. Contact Center AI contains Virtual…
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Amazon today announced a new addition to its growing stable of cloud products: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Data Exchange. It’s pitching it as a way for AWS customers to “securely” find, subscribe to, and use third-party data from…
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LONDON: Uber launched a set of new safety features in Britain on Thursday as it battles to retain its taxi operating licence in the face of concerns about passenger safety. The measures include a discrimination button enabling drivers and…
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GitHub today shared plans to open the Arctic Code Vault, an effort to store and preserve open source software like Flutter and TensorFlow. Code for all open source projects will be stored here on film with frames that include 8.8 million…
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Google Checking Some of the biggest tech companies in the world, including Apple, have been trying to break into the personal banking space by offering credit cards and checking accounts to their customers. Now, according to an exclusive…
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At this year’s Microsoft Ignite conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella placed the focus on consistent developer experiences in multi- and hybrid-cloud, alongside the announcements of new initiatives for “cloud-delivered quantum…
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YouTube has confirmed that it will not be terminating any channels that don’t make money or are not ‘commercially viable’. YouTube says it can only pull back certain features for outdated accounts but will not terminate them The platform…
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Adobe and Microsoft have helped millions do their best work in the Microsoft tools they use every day.  Today, we are deepening integrations between Adobe Sign and Microsoft Office 365, Dynamics 365, and Azure to simplify how work gets…
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Meet PacketAI, a French startup that wants to alert you when there’s something wrong with your app or service. The company uses machine learning to parse raw event data and find out if there’s anything wrong. PacketAI can intercept…
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Microsoft said Monday it plans to follow California’s digital privacy law throughout the US. The move expands the reach of the law, which gives consumers more control over how companies collect and manage their personal data. Microsoft…
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Google is secretly working with one of the biggest healthcare systems in the U.S. to collect and analyze personal health data from millions of Americans, The Wall Street Journal reports. The megacorporation is reportedly using the data to…
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At Chrome Dev Summit in San Francisco today, Google shared its latest vision for the web. First, the company is trying to make loading disappear via instantaneous experiences. The company demoed Web Bundles, a new platform primitive that…
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Ever stay in an Airbnb listing that lacked a trash bin? A kitchen light? Running water? But one which had ample broken beer bottles littering the balcony, trash shoved into the holes in a milk crate, and filthy sheets on a bed that hadn’t…
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Voi Technology, the “micro-mobility” startup that operates an e-scooter service in a 38 cities across 10 European countries, has raised an $85 million in Series B funding. Backing the round is a mixture of existing and new investors. They…
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Stock trading app Robinhood is valued at $7.6 billion, but it only operates in the US. Freshly-funded fintech startup Alpaca does the dirty work so developers worldwide can launch their own competitors to that investing unicorn. Like the…
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Verifying a citation on Wikipedia can be as easy as clicking the online source linked within a page. But what if a citation calls back to a physical book instead, one you’d typically need to find at a library or bookstore? The Internet…
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YouTube is offering desktop users a way to take the wheel that steers what YouTube plays next, and it’s also morphing the look of its homepage on desktop web browsers and its tablet apps. The changes for Google’s massive video service…
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In a recent survey of over 5,000 enterprise companies, 58% responded that they were using Kubernetes the open source container-orchestration system for automating app deployment, scaling, and management in production, while 42% said they…
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After stories of a deadly shooting on an Airbnb property and a series of rental scams on the platform, the company has vowed to verify all listings on the platform by the end of 2020. Airbnb is to verify every listing on its platform,…
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Yandex’s autonomous ambitions extend beyond the automotive domain. The Moscow-based company today announced that its self-driving division responsible for developing, testing, and deploying its driverless vehicle fleet is piloting a robot…
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In the leadership of Satya Nadella, Microsoft has grown from just window company to a whole new dominant player of every other industry, whether it’s cloud computing, social media or hardware products. This week, Microsoft has taken a bold…
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Wardrobe, a new peer-to-peer fashion rental marketplace, has today announced the close of a $1.5 million seed round and its public launch out of beta. The funding was led by angel investor Cyan Banister and Ludlow Ventures, with…
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Neural Magic, a startup founded by an MIT professor, who figured out a way to run machine learning models on commodity CPUs, announced a $15 million seed investment today. Comcast Ventures led the round with participation from NEA,…
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